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Devils Advocate NZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 05:29 AM
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154. You're right, my mistake...
The company is called DynCorp, not DynaCorp, and the location was Bosnia, not Kosovo.

June 26, 2002 | Ben Johnston recoiled in horror when he heard one of his fellow helicopter mechanics at a U.S. Army base near Tuzla, Bosnia, brag one day in early 2000: "My girl's not a day over 12."

The man who uttered the statement -- a man in his 60s, by Johnston's estimate -- was not talking fondly about his granddaughter or daughter or another relative. He was bragging about the preteen he had purchased from a local brothel. Johnston, who'd gone to work as a civilian contractor mechanic for DynCorp Inc. after a six-year stint in the Army, had worked on helicopters for years, and he'd heard a lot of hangar talk. But never anything like this.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/26/bosnia/index.html

Perhaps Salon is not a credible enough source for you, so how about this:

There were, however, several instances of sexual misconduct among officers who deployed prior to the institution of these trafficking briefings. When these instances occurred, the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs followed through with its zero tolerance policy and the individuals were terminated. INL also referred several cases of serious misconduct by U.S. CIVPOL officers to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
http://www.state.gov/p/io/rls/rm/2002/9777.htm

You don't seem to know much about what your military does overseas. You must watch Fox News!
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